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About me

Here are three things you might not know about me:

  • Before I came to Cronkite, I’d never lived farther west than Western New York.
  • I saw the Talking Heads play “Psycho Killer” at CBGB. (The drinking age was 18 then)
  • The only sport I ever followed much was college basketball. I went to school at UNC and taught at Duke. Guess which one has my loyalty.

My favorite animal

A lot of times, images come into a markdown very large. There are ways to make it smaller. Here’s a picture of my favorite animal, downloaded from https://unsplash.com

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Adding R code

So far, this is just a regular document – it doesn’t have anything special to R. But the reason that R Markdown is useful is that you can combine your program with your document. To add a “code chunk”, press CTL-Option/Alt-i at the same time, or go to the top and use the menu, “Insert” an R chunk. If you do that, you’ll notice that you have options for other computer languages. Don’t worry about that just yet.

#this is a comment. 
#Name a variable: 
#
my_name <- "Sarah"
my_value <- 20

Now you can print those variables:

my_name
my_value
## [1] "Sarah"
## [1] 20
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